The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) of the collider experiment

V. Golovatyuk; V. Kekelidze; V. Kolesnikov; O. Rogachevsky; A. Sorin

doi:10.1140/epja/i2016-16212-1

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The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) of the collider experiment

V. Golovatyuk¹, V. Kekelidze¹^*, V. Kolesnikov¹, O. Rogachevsky¹ and A. Sorin¹^,2

¹ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Russia
² National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI), 115409, Moscow, Russia

Received: 18 November 2015
Accepted: 26 January 2016
Published online: 9 August 2016

Abstract

The project NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility) is aimed to study dense baryonic matter in heavy-ion collisions in the energy range up to

GeV with average luminosity of L = 10²⁷ cm^-2s^-1 (for ¹⁹⁷Au⁷⁹). The experimental program at the NICA collider will be performed with the Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD). We report on the main physics objectives of the NICA heavy-ion program and present the main detector components.

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